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Commit f9ff5782 authored by Edwin Peer's avatar Edwin Peer Committed by David S. Miller
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bnxt_en: introduce new firmware message API based on DMA pools


This change constitutes a major step towards supporting multiple
firmware commands in flight by maintaining a separate response buffer
for the duration of each request. These firmware commands are also
known as Hardware Resource Manager (HWRM) commands.  Using separate
response buffers requires an API change in order for callers to be
able to free the buffer when done.

It is impossible to keep the existing APIs unchanged.  The existing
usage for a simple HWRM message request such as the following:

        struct input req = {0};
        bnxt_hwrm_cmd_hdr_init(bp, &req, REQ_TYPE, -1, -1);
        rc = hwrm_send_message(bp, &req, sizeof(req), HWRM_CMD_TIMEOUT);
        if (rc)
                /* error */

changes to:

         struct input *req;
         rc = hwrm_req_init(bp, req, REQ_TYPE);
         if (rc)
                 /* error */
         rc = hwrm_req_send(bp, req); /* consumes req */
         if (rc)
                 /* error */

The key changes are:

1. The req is no longer allocated on the stack.
2. The caller must call hwrm_req_init() to allocate a req buffer and
   check for a valid buffer.
3. The req buffer is automatically released when hwrm_req_send() returns.
4. If the caller wants to check the firmware response, the caller must
   call hwrm_req_hold() to take ownership of the response buffer and
   release it afterwards using hwrm_req_drop().  The caller is no longer
   required to explicitly hold the hwrm_cmd_lock mutex to read the
   response.
5. Because the firmware commands and responses all have different sizes,
   some safeguards are added to the code.

This patch maintains legacy API compatibiltiy, implementing the old
API in terms of the new.  The follow-on patches will convert all
callers to use the new APIs.

v2: Fix redefined writeq with parisc .config
    Fix "cast from pointer to integer of different size" warning in
hwrm_calc_sentinel()

Signed-off-by: default avatarEdwin Peer <edwin.peer@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 3c8c20db
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